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This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop it Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But how did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product which has now...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2016-09-06
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This book argues that the implementation of compulsory, highly regulated, privately administered, defined contribution pensions facilitates rent-seeking behaviour on the part of the pension fund administrators and undermines the retirees’ income and well-being. While...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book focuses on database law (a branch of intellectual property law) and further explores the legal protection currently available for data and data-related products in India. It offers a comparative study of the position of copyright law in protecting databases in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-26
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Targeted analytics to address the unique opportunities in hospitality and gaming The Analytic Hospitality Executive helps decision makers understand big data and how it can drive value in the industry. Written by a leading business analytics expert who specializes in...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2016-08-22
Collection :
Wiley and SAS Business Series
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Die Autoren zeigen einen neuen Weg auf, gamifizierte Wissensmanagementsysteme mit der Anwendung spielerischer Elemente zu gestalten, und beschreiben die Anforderungserhebung, die Gestaltung und Evaluation des Systems. Hierbei gehen sie auf die theoretischen Grundlagen...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-08-22
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This book describes the Exergy-based Input – Output (ExIO) framework, a comprehensive methodology for assessing the primary fossil fuels requirements for the production of goods and services within a given economy from a lifecycle perspective. In the ExIO approach,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-19
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This book calls for rethinking current climate, energy and sustainability policy-making by presenting new insights into the rebound phenomenon; i.e., the driving forces, mechanisms and extent of rebound effects and potential means of mitigating them. It pursues an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-18
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This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles. It poses the question whether the use of lightweight materials in electric vehicles can reduce the vehicles’ environmental impact and compares the environmental...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-25
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While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-14
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This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-14
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Im Mittelpunkt dieses Sammelbandes stehen die zukünftigen Perspektiven der Bankwirtschaft vor dem Hintergrund der Einführung der Europäischen Bankenunion. Neben der Sorge vor einer Überregulierung der Banken im Euroraum macht die andauernde Niedrigzinssituation die...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2016-07-05
Collection :
ifk edition
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Your indispensable guide to mastering the efficient use of D3.js in professional-standard data visualization projects. You will learn what data visualization is, how to work with it, and how to think like a D3.js expert, both practically and theoretically.Practical...
Editeur :
Apress
Parution :
2016-07-04
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This book examines the changing business and
economic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcoming
challenges for this industry. Postal services continue to play a central part
in the development of national economies. However, the economic and social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-01
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This book presents an analysis of the role of UK building societies, their strengths and weaknesses, and their contribution to the industry, at a time where public confidence in banking is low. Chapters present the results of an empirical analysis of the comparative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-25
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In this book, leading international experts explore the emerging concept of the zero energy mass custom home (ZEMCH) – designed to meet the need for social, economic, and environmental sustainability – and provide all of the knowledge required for the delivery of zero...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-25
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Transport costs have been, and still are, an important component of trade costs, which are one the major determinants of the volume of trade, and thus of gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP growth. Studies show that two of the main determinants of transport costs are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-17
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Transport costs have been, and still are, an important component of trade costs, which are one the major determinants of the volume of trade, and thus of gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP growth. Studies show that two of the main determinants of transport costs are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Das interdisziplinär aufgebaute Buch bietet kommunalen Energieversorgern Hilfestellung, damit sie ihre Energieverbundsysteme analysieren und optimal steuern lernen. Es gibt einen Überblick über den Aufbau und die Komponenten von kommunalen Energieverbundsystemen. Die...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-06-13
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China’s financial regulatory system is crucial to the global economy, but is little understood. This book surveys and explicates the current status, the development, and planned reform of the Chinese financial supervision and regulatory system in a systematic way. From...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-10
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